What’s the best way to illustrate wealth in modern society ? Social Media! For the past couple of years Instagram has been a huge hit for users to upload photos of their lives and show off what they have. Heard of rich kids on the internet?! Well it’s an account created by rich kids worldwide to post images of their lavish lifestyles. Below you”ll see an image from this account. This is a women wearing designer head to toe while she shops and moves around in her private jet! As she captions her picture “Taking jets like people take Ubers”. Here she is  showing off her wealth and power because this is something not many people can do. Even if this image didn’t have a caption everything about represents money/wealth. Just as the oil paintings that Berger was discussing about. Both this image and the oil paintings demonstrates what money can buy. Although this image can’t be hanged on a wall it can be posted to the world on social media to show. Berger states “Every portrait is a record which says,” I once existed and looked like this.”Just like in this imagine her goal was to represent what Berger stated by taking the photo and posting it. The difference is that the meaning to this  image can change over time  and the meaning of the oil paintings as Berger states is something that would remain sacred.

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